In the testing of seven health professionals accused of murdering Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, experts involved in their bodies examination testified on Tuesday that football legend had unusual big heart. Maradona’s body -testing experts also testified that he was suffering from cirrhosis, but said that his body did not show any mark of alcohol or drugs at the time of his death. Maradona, who pointed to Argentina’s World Cup victory in 1986, died on 25 November, 2020 at the age of 60.
Forensic expert Alejandro Azciel Vega told the court that Maradona’s heart was “increased” and weighs around 503 grams, when the average weight is between 250 and 300 grams. Vega reported that Maradona’s heart examination showed that the legend was suffering from “long -standing Iscimia”, with “blood flow and lack of oxygen”.
Maradona breathed his last while being hospitalized at home in a residence in Buenos Aires, a few days later surgery for Hematoma which was made between her skull and brain.
Autopsy concluded that Maradona died of acute pulmonary edema (lung fluid manufacture), which caused heart failure.
Diego Maradona’s neurologist Leopoldo Louke, who served as a doctor from Diego Maradona, stands in court on the first day of a test for alleged murder against the medical team, who treated the late football star in San Isidro on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP photo)
The prosecution stated that seven professionals accused in the case – a neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, doctor and nurse – who were caring for Maradona, failed to provide adequate care, leading to death.
Additionally, forensic specialist Ezequiel Ventosy said that no marks of alcohol or drugs are shown in blood and urine samples taken from Maradona.
Silwana de Piero of the same Police Task Force said that the liver analysis identified “the conditions with cirrhosis”, and that Maradona’s kidney had “changed the work and lacked a good blood supply to carry oxygen.”
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The trial features Leopoldo Luke and Psychiatrist Agstina Kosachov, who prescribed the drug that Maradona had taken by the time of his death. Luke is Maradona’s individual physician during the last four years of his life.
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